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AI was supposed to help us do things we couldn't do. Not do things that we could already do worse.

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The mythical infinity.

I guess you are right. Think of it this way, LLMs are doing great at solving specific sets of problems. Now, people in charge of the money think that LLMs are the closest thing to an intelligent agents. All they have to do is reduce the hallucinations and make it more accurate by adding more data and/or tweaking the model.

Our current incentive structure reward results over everything else. That is the primary reason for this AI race. There are people who falsely believe that by throwing money at LLMs they can make it better and eventually reach true AGI. Then, there are others who are misleading the money men, even when they know the truth.

But, just because something is doing great at some limited benchmark doesn't mean that model can generalise it to all the infinite situations. Again look at my og comment for why it is so. Intelligence is multi-faceted and multi dimensional.

This is unlike space race in one primary way. In space race, we understood the principles for going to space well enough since the time of Newton. All we had to do was engineer the rocket. For example, we knew that we have to find the fuel that can generate maximum thrust per kg of fuel oxygen mixture burnt. The only question was what form it would. Now you could just have many teams look for many different fuels to answer this question. It is scalable. Space race was an engineering question.

Meanwhile, AI is a question of science. We don't understand the concept of intelligence itself very well. Focussing on LLMs solely is a mistake because the progress here might not even translate well and maybe even harm the larger AI research.

There are in scientific community who believe that we might never be able to understand intelligence because to understand it a higher level of intelligence is needed. Again, not saying it is true. Just that there are many ideas and viewpoints present with regards to AI and intelligence in general.

Don't believe the hype: LLMs are not AI. Not even close. They are in fact, much closer to pattern recognition models. Fundamentally, our brains are able to 'understand' any query posed to it. Only problem is we don't know what 'understanding' even means. How can we then even judge if some model is capable of understanding, or is the output just something that is statistically most likely?

Second, can AI even know what a human experience is like? We cannot give AI inputs in the exact form we receive them in. In fact, we cannot input the sensations of touch, flavor and smell to AI at all. So, AI as of yet cannot tell you how a freshly baked bread smells like or feels like, for example. Human experience is still our domain. That means our inspirations are intact and AI cannot create works of art that feel truly human.

Finally, AI by default has no concept of truth or false. It takes every statement in it's training data as true, unless, they are labelled individually by hand. Of course, such an approach doesn't scale well for petabytes of text data. So, LLMs tend to hallucinate stuff because again it is only giving out text that is only statistically most likely, given the input.

In short, we still don't have many pieces of puzzle that is true AI. We know it is possible because we exist, but that's about it. Sure, AI is doing better than humans in specific cases, but they nowhere close humans in understanding and reasoning.

Happy to see free market working as intended.

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"And I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.” this quote by Camus in "The Stranger" always get me. Points out the absurdism of searching for a meaning in this vast, complex and more importantly indifferent universe.

Of course, Nietzsche felt different. He thought we still had an obligation to do great.

To me personally, taoism seems to provide a happy middle ground. Do what you can, try what you want. In the end success or failure brings some pros and some cons. Life is all about navigating the water current. Sometimes, you take control and other times you let the water carry you. It is all about knowing when to do either.

Nietzsche particularly said that we should all strive to be the best versions of ourselves, something he called "uber-mensch" an idea, which I believe was hijacked by Nazis.

He was a nihilist, but he also urged everyone to create their own values and follow it to be the best you can be. But, then he was also a disgusting sexist. People are complicated.

I do this with my nephew. It is quite something to be able to share our childish fantasy with someone else.

One is an act of protest and the other is an act of hate.